Worldbuilding without the post-WW/WWII/Cold War glasses (TL, CR etc.)

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Originally Posted by vicky_molokh

The setting I'm currently GMing, which is the reason this topic presents extra interest to me.

Just from skimming the wiki, I'll say that it seems extraordinarily unlikely to me for them to have any kind of computers in general use and for them to not experience miniaturization and all the other modern advances in those technologies. If you strip them of computers entirely, say the governments never created them or encryption devices, Turing never lived, and so on, then you can get away with it.

But giving them some computers but not digital technologies doesn't seem reasonable. Transistors seem like pretty obvious technology, especially if you have vacuum tubes. Do they have vacuum tubes?


Hmm... I wonder if these people could even have radar.